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Some people seem to have problems griping their new iPhone 4, I guess the excitement is to much to bear so they end up dropping their brand new phone. One thing you will learn with time is that Apple customers are very critical about flaws in their product, and rightfully so. After all we are paying a premium aka”Apple Tax”.

So when people find out that something is not performing up par with what Apple promised, then everybody tends to jump on the flaming bandwagon. And this is what has happened after the in-depth examination the new iPhone has received.

So why exactly is this new extra strong glass breaking you might ask? Simple, there is no bezel to absorb the blow. in other words, if you drop your iPhone more than likely it will land on one of its corners, and end up breaking the glass. This can be attributed to the fact that glass is at its weakest in the corner parts.

If you ever find your self having to break a glass door then it would be best to hit it in one of the four corners instead of attempting to smash it by hitting square in the middle. Hitting glass in the middle will allow for the blow to be absorbed. But if you hit it in one of the corners then there is not much surface left for the blow to be absorbed. 

Prior iPhones had a protection layer in their corners that shielded the glass from receiving a direct blow. The new iPhone does not have such luxury, the glass extends all the way to the corner of the phone and it is completely exposed. I’m not sure if this is an actual design flaw, but I would venture to say that the next version of the iphone should take the approach taken by the iPad where the glass is surrounded by the metal bezel and has a rubber material that is sandwiched between the glass and the metal casing.

Take this problem and the reception problem and this new iPhone turns out to be the “iPhone that must be used with a case”.

 

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